Jobs market: Men, hit hardest in recession, are getting work faster than women

The Washington Post reports:

The recession was hard on men, who saw construction and manufacturing jobs dry up, but the recovery is proving much kinder. In a rare turnabout, men are outpacing women in getting jobs as the economy struggles back to life — and they’re doing it partly by taking work in fields long dominated by women.

Men are accounting for a growing proportion of jobs in the private education and health-care industries — economic bright spots of the past two years. Simultaneously, women are losing teaching and other local government jobs at a disproportionately high rate as municipalities cut back, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center.

Eventually, Dick Cheney and George Bush will be blamed for this.